THE NEW YORKER LTMENTS tg-Where the Avenue BeginJ direction of a rival, you are bound by a gentlem n's agreement to let the first firm arrange the details for you, as it will mean a commission for them and will cost you no more. In choosing your firm, remember that none of the large firms are very apt at suggesting cheap little rooms around Sheridan Square. For build- ings below Fourteenth Street, it is well to garner the names of likely brokers from signs on the type of building which accords with your needs. Though there is great diver- gence in the type of apartments of- f ered by the different firms, you may safely trust your broker to send you packing if he has nothing that falls within the province of your demands. Downtown there are so many apart- ments to be sublet which are not list- ed by their owners that a stroll through the neighborhood of your choice may repay you. This depart- ment, however, assumes no responsi- bility for fallen arches and disappoint- ments. T HIS plea is largely occasioned by the fact, which makes my hair stand on end, that many of the appli- cants for apartments at Number One Fifth Avenue were residents of Brook- lyn Heights who had watched with in- terest the progress on its tower and dropped over to Manhattan to see whether 1t was a place in which they would choose to live. The fact that some of them stayed to pay does not make this method of finding an apart- ment a bit less sloppy. It might, for all they knew, have been a downtown Roxy's. This building is none the less worthy of drawing renters from all boroughs, and I do not wonder at their admiration of its architecture. It will be an apartment hotel of some twenty- seven stories given qver entirely to suites of two and three rooms, with the odds placed highly in favor of the larger suites, which take most of the nice corners of the building. Tenants are being accepted for the middle of November; but I doubt if the last loving touches will be added much before it is time to hang up the mistletoe. Probably the nicest thing about these apartments is their liglit and air, admitted Jby enormous win- dows which are scattered about with spendthrift generosity. In one living- 75 10 . \ ' " \ \"', I, \ ,\, \. ' " .. . '" \ \ , \ , I I ,', '" ,\\\" " " \ \ \ \ \ \ , I I ,), '. " \\\\;. : ; ,I l,: I "I I , , , I I I , I I f So is an Old Master, an authentic Chippendale. But in each case., the. cost in time, effort and money doesn"t influence your selection. The surer your knowledge of furniture or painting., the more certain you are to select the best. The surer your knowledge of fine apartments, the more certainly 775 Park A venue will appeal to you. No effort has been spared to make each of these apartments a masterpiece. They are conservative in construction, worthily executed, modern and india vidual in plan. There are simplexes, duplexes and a triplex, a maisonette with a private street number, one apartment with a private elevator. The ceilings are unusually high -10' 4" to II' 6". Fireplaces in every room that should possibly contain them, which means never less than two to an apartment. The 14 room apartments have 23 closets. Michael E. Paterno, builder; Rosario Candela, architect; Mrs. Ceo. Draper, Consultant. The maintenance charges are 9 1 11% including sinking fund. 100% cooperative. 115 PARK AVEa AT 1 ND STREET Selling and Managing Agent: 14 EAST 47th STREET VANDERBILT 0031 BROWN WHEELOCK: HARRIS VOUGHT & CO , Inc.